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 Apparently there is a British band called Mumford & Sons.  One of their members had the utter audacity to congratulate Andy Ngo on the publication of his book about Antifa.  The mob descended upon him like the foul breath of Sauron.  He apologized.  As we all know, it’s the worse thing you can do.

“Rather predictably another viral mob came after me, this time for the sin of apologizing,” he wrote. “Then followed libelous articles calling me ‘right-wing’ and such. Though there’s nothing wrong with being conservative, when forced to politically label myself I flutter between ‘centrist,’ ‘liberal’ or the more honest ‘bit this, bit that.’ Being labeled erroneously just goes to show how binary political discourse has become. I had criticized the ‘Left’, so I must be the ‘Right,’ or so their logic goes.”

This is a thought-ful young man, Mr Winston Marshall is.  He’s actually leaving his band so that he is clear to speak his conscience without his friends and bandmates being affected.  

“My love, loyalty and accountability to them cannot permit that,” he added. “I could remain and continue to self-censor but it will erode my sense of integrity. Gnaw my conscience. I’ve already felt that beginning.”

He quotes Solzhenitsyn in his announcement of his departure.

“‘And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.”

 Like I said, I don’t know the band or this man.  But I can admire and applaud his integrity.